Live Workshop

Rebuilding your Life
after Addiction

Led by George Haas, Founding Teacher of Mettagroup
TBD

Join us at our next workshop.

In this workshop, you’ll learn the 4 areas to focus on for greater stability, purpose and contentment on your addiction recovery path.

We form addictions when the pains of life become intolerable.

You can’t tell someone “Just stop using” without offering alternative ways of handling and healing these painful thoughts and emotions. Mettagroup offers a systematic approach to reduce the pain to the point where addiction is no longer needed to cope. Working with procedural memory (unlike cognitive training, which can still be hijacked by stress), this mindfulness meditation-based work enables powerful, sustainable change in behaviors around addiction.

Do you suffer from substance abuse disorder?

Can you relate?

  • You have a hard time maintaining harm reduction or abstinence goals

  • Your personal relationships suffer due to your substance use

  • You have trouble maintaining your professional obligations

  • You have trouble controlling the amount and/or frequency of your use

  • Is your substance affecting other people? Are people complaining about your substance use?

Walk away with:

  • Gain Clarity on What's Been Keeping You Stuck in Addictive Patterns

    After trying other addiction recovery approaches, and deciding to put down your substance of choice or behavioral addiction, why can’t we heal for good?

    We’ll uncover the reasons why relapse happens and help you access clarity around your own journey.

  • Get a High Level View of the 4 Keys to Healing Addiction for Good

    You’ll learn about the four modules that are the next step in this journey: craving and urging; stress, anger and depression; persistent negative emotions; and difficult interpersonal relationships.

  • The Attachment-Based Solution to Long-Term Addiction Recovery and Living a Meaningful Life

    If you’re done with the starts and stops on your addiction recovery path, then you may love our approach to getting to the root of addiction and healing for the long term.

    In this workshop, we’ll introduce you to theMeditation x Addiction approach to substance use disorders, which is attachment-based.

    You’ll understand how this evidence-based system combines ongoing meditation practice, the relapse pattern theory of G. Alan Marlatt, PhD and John Bowlby’s psychological model of Attachment Theory. Learn how to bring this system into your life for long-term relief and fulfillment.

This Workshop is For You If

✔️ You’re ready to make lasting change

✔️ You are able to maintain your harm reduction or abstinence goals, but you still have trouble maintaining healthy relationships

✔️ Regardless of substance use, you still have trouble finding meaning in your life. Is life still painful?

✔️ Your thoughts are still out of control even if you are sober

Join us LIVE at this upcoming workshop to learn about an effective strategy for relapse prevention and moving to the next stage of your recovery.

George Haas1

Hi, I’m George Haas,
Founding Teacher. I’m glad you’re here.

Welcome! I’m glad you’re here. I’m George Haas, Founding Teacher of Mettagroup, an organization committed to helping people heal their attachment injury, be more secure and live a truly meaningful life.

I began my own path with a period of lightweight spiritual seeking (and heavy-duty drug and alcohol use).

I got sober through 12-step recovery at the age of 24. In 1978 I embarked on a serious exploration of the eleventh step of the Twelve-Step tradition, working primarily with concentration to reduce the anxiety of living sober.

Subsequently, I began walking the Red Road (traditional Native American spiritual practices) and reading Buddhist texts in the 1980s to help make sense of the mounting AIDS crisis.

The Key to Ending the Cycle of Addiction

At Mettagroup, we offer a reparative approach that combines attachment theory and meditation.
Here’s why.

Once you’ve gained an understanding of the concepts and differences between attachment styles, the difficulties you have in past relationships all start to make sense. This can lead to greater relief, and an opening to new possibilities.

Here’s how the combination works.
With meditation, we offer specific types of practices that guide in the attachment repair process. We then pair that with a psycho-educational approach to attachment theory. This winning combination is what has helped many of our students (including myself) earn secure attachment and end so many of the patterns that once held us back.

Oftentimes, my students can’t believe they’ve waited so long to make these connections.

But the good news is, it’s not too late!

The Key to Ending the Relationship Dysfunction

“I'm better than I've ever been.”

“I just want to share, that it's been six years, a big journey, a big journey. But guess what? I've earned secure. Today I found out that I've earned secure. I know a lot of you won't know what that means, but some of you might. I got my attachment assessment inventory back today and I'm secure. I'm better than I've ever been.”

-Sia, Pop Star

Sia, Pop Star
  • “Working with George Haas and Mettagroup was the best decision of my life. In under four years I moved from a highly disorganized attachment style to earned security. Now my days have a sense of happiness and purpose that I never thought was possible before. I’d recommend George to anyone.”

    -Evan Leed

FAQs

  • Yes! If you can make it out live, we’d love to see you there. If you want to catch the replay, we’ll send it to you within 24 hours after the workshop, via email.

  • Attachment theory is an understanding of the instinctual drive to seek closeness to a caregiver who will provide protection and love, as well as support the development of your natural abilities.

    By understanding this system, as well as your own attachment style (as well as the attachment styles of people in your life), you’re better equipped to act in secure ways, get your needs met, set aligned boundaries, and invest time and energy in reciprocally supportive relationships. This leads to having the capacity to live a more meaningful life, and to put your energy into your authentic passions, curiosity and purpose (and less energy in volatile relationships).

  • Commonly referred to as "mindfulness," Vipassanā meditation is focused on living more peacefully, compassionately and wisely. Derived from the Theravada school of Buddhism, the techniques are widely acknowledged as effective ways to manage pain, stress, compulsiveness and are often used in conjunction with psychotherapy.